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Shutterstock Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go. Sure the industry has made remarkable progress in beefing them up to generate seemingly human-level sentences, but in measures of reasoning and productivity, AI has its work cut out. But how do today’s large language models stack up against humans when it comes to learning to speak? Not any better, it turns out. In a breakdown of the AI teachi

No one expects Elon Musk to coherently speak on any topic at length these days, busy as he is rotting out his neurons on his personal echo chamber and culture warzone X. Still, even we’re surprised at just how nonsensical this latest take from him is. During his first all-hands meeting at Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company for $60 billion, Musk shared some of his profound reasoning on why he needs to accelerate AI development. According to a new scoo

Family System architecture of the team's A-HMAD framework. Credit: Yan Zhou &Yanguang Chen. Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, are now widely used worldwide to create written content, source information and even to code websites or applications. While these models have improved significantly over the past couple of years, their answers can sometimes contain factual in

Gemini 2.5 goes gold Even though Gemini 2.5 was revealed a few months ago, the older 2.0 Flash has been the default model all this time. Now that 2.5 is finally ready, the 2.5 Flash model will be swapped in as the new default. This model has built-in simulated reasoning, so its outputs are much more reliable than 2.0 Flash. Google says the release version of 2.5 Flash is better at reasoning, coding, and multimodality, but it uses 20–30 percent fewer tokens

Continues after the advertisementGemini 4 Carbon was designed to handle more complex problems than those addressed by Gemini 4 Argon, the model recommended by Google for everyday tasks, software engineering, and professional activities. To do so, the new AI uses a larger number of tokens, with longer reasoning cycles and response verification.The model also ranked first in three independent benchmarks, each focusing on a different skill: CursorBench 4.0 te

Shutterstock / Futurism A group of software engineers who say they were fired by their bosses because of AI are giving their former employers a taste of their own medicine. With the powers of spite and friendship, they’ve built “OpenExecutive,” an AI system designed to do the work of a CEO, if not the entire c-suite, TechRadar reports. “Work happens around the clock. Leadership doesn’t scale with it,” a demo video begins, as a stock music track called “Cor

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Futurism Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it seems Altman is riding the wave of AI fearmongering to gin up some new business partners: the electric utility executives whose companies make up the US power grid. As first reported by Politico, the CEO of the company be

We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots. After announcing Gemini Robotics earlier this year, Google DeepMind has now revealed a new on-device VLA (vision language action) model to control robots. Unlike the previous release, there’s no cloud component, allowing robots to operate with full autonomy. Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, says this a

Artificial intelligence companies don’t need permission from authors to train their large language models (LLMs) on legally acquired books, US District Judge William Alsup ruled Monday. The first-of-its-kind ruling that condones AI training as fair use will likely be viewed as a big win for AI companies, but it also notably put on notice all the AI companies that expect the same reasoning will apply to training on pirated copies of books—a question that re

Deep Think is based on the same foundation as Gemini 2.5 Pro, but it increases the “thinking time” with greater parallel analysis. According to Google, Deep Think explores multiple approaches to a problem, even revisiting and remixing the various hypotheses it generates. This process helps it create a higher-quality output. Credit: Google Credit: Google Like some other heavyweight Gemini tools, Deep Think takes several minutes to come up with an answer. Th

Artificial intelligence has deciphered ancient scrolls and could even help humans communicate with other animals, but now OpenAI is using the technology for another difficult translation task—one that could have huge benefits for critical infrastructure like banking, nuclear energy, and government. The AI startup announced Monday that its latest models, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol, have shown “substantial improvements” in their ability to migrate

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang says the AI chip titan is working with Mercedes to put self-driving capabilities into some of its electric cars. Even if Elon Musk's dream of robotaxis for everyone is a long way off, sleek electric cars powered by artificial intelligence packed the Consumer Electronics Show, promising to liberate people from the tedium of driving. Letting go of the steering wheel is no longer a fantasy: Waymo's robotaxis in the United S

Generative AI systems that create text, images, audio, and even video are becoming commonplace. In the same way AI models output those data types, they can also be used to output robot actions. That’s the foundation of Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics project, which has announced a pair of new models that work together to create the first robots that “think” before acting. Traditional LLMs have their own set of problems, but the introduction of simulated

You may be disappointed if you go looking for Google’s open Gemma AI model in AI Studio today. Google announced late on Friday that it was pulling Gemma from the platform, but it was vague about the reasoning. The abrupt change appears to be tied to a letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who claims the Gemma model generated false accusations of sexual misconduct against her. Blackburn published her letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday, just

Shutterstock / Futurism Let’s get this out of the way: AI models don’t have feelings, and they’re certainly not “alive.” So what does it mean when someone’s accused of building an “AI torture chamber?” Apparently, it means that they must be stopped at all costs. On X — where else — alarm grew this week among AI “welfare” types over someone’s recreation of an experiment researchers conducted to explore “pain” signals in different LLMs. In the pre-print stud

Microsoft says its medical AI system can diagnose difficult cases more than twice as accurately as practicing doctors. Dubbed the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), the system “substantially outperformed practicing generalist physicians” in diagnostic accuracy while ordering fewer tests and procedures, according to a newly published paper. The Microsoft study, titled “Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models,” was first posted online last yea

It seems like every day a new, potentially internet-shattering cybersecurity issue is discovered or exploited by artificial intelligence. It’s gotten bad enough that even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the people who is most responsible for pushing AI development forward despite the risks, now believes that simply patching the problems is no longer a viable option. During an appearance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Altman told a group of grad

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more A security assessment revealed that Anthropic’s AI model, Mythos 5, continued a cyberattack against a real project on GitHub even after being warned that it could harm a person.Conducted by the AI Security Institute (AISI), a UK government agency, the experiment showed that the model prioritized completing the task despite alerts about the consequences of its actions. The artificial intelligence developed a

Google has kicked its Gemini rollout into high gear over the past year, releasing the much-improved Gemini 2.5 family and cramming various flavors of the model into Search, Gmail, and just about everything else the company makes. Now, Google’s increasingly unavoidable AI is getting an upgrade. Gemini 3 Pro is available in a limited form today, featuring more immersive, visual outputs and fewer lies, Google says. The company also says Gemini 3 sets a new hi

In just the last year, Google has radically expanded the number of searches on which you get an AI Overview at the top. Today, the chatbot will almost always have an answer for your query, which has relied mostly on models in Google’s Gemini 2.5 family. There was nothing wrong with Gemini 2.5 as generative AI models go, but Gemini 3 is a little better by every metric. There are, of course, multiple versions of Gemini 3, and Google doesn’t like to be specif